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Fun Trivia
100
What Management style means that all decisions are made centrally? (Laissez-faire, Bureaucratic, Authoritarian or Democratic)
What is Authoritarian
100
Staff performance appraisals work best if they are strictly an annual event - true or false?
What is False. (A person's performance and progress and project work, etc., benefit enormously from more frequent appraisal discussions than once a year. Informal appraisals can be conducted as frequently as is helpful. Obviously the more frequent, the less formal, which is another benefit.)
100
What is the action of passing down authority down the hierarchy?
What is Delegation
100
Winnipeg is the capital city of which Canadian province?
What is Manitoba
100
Arctic King, Saladin and Tom Thumb are which types of vegetable?
What is Lettuce
200
Integrity is essential in all functions, but is it most crucial in supervision, management, or leadership?
What is Leadership. (Leadership which lacks integrity can bring down an entire corporation).
200
If you assume responsibility for a mature, high-achieving confident team, which of the following is generally the best approach to take: stamp your authority on the group; introduce some new ideas of your own; give them space and make yourself available if needed; or look for ways to cut costs?
What is Give them space and make yourself available if needed. (A mature, high-achieving confident team can virtually run itself - which is every team-manager's aim. Why go backwards? If you start micro-managing or interfering you will waste your time that you could have otherwise used on strategic creative developments and opportunities, and you will upset the team members. Your priority is to understand the team so as to help them develop, ideally including the development of a successor for yourself. This will enable you to move on to your next opportunity.)
200
For effective time management what's the best frequency for checking your email inbox: constantly, every hour, two or three times a day?
What is Two or three times a day. (Constant interruptions and distractions are extremely unhelpful for all proactive work, especially thinking, communicating, creating, planning, project managing, etc. Many organisations have developed the weird practice of continuous email checking or alerting, but that doesn't make it right. It's a question of managing your environment rather than let it manage you.)
200
The city of Vienna in Austria lies on which river?
What is Danube
300
When conducting appraisals or counselling sessions it's best to sit at your desk with the other person facing you on the other side, so as to reinforce your authority - true or false?
What is False. (Similar to job interviews - you want the other person to be relaxed and comfortable, not threatened. Desks create barriers; so sit around a low coffee table instead. Sitting directly opposite facing each other is a confrontational arrangement; it's best to sit at an angle of between 90-120 degrees; or think of 12:15 or 12:20 on the clockface. Using any method to reinforce or impose authority will increase emotions, which undermines the value of the communications.)
300
An expanded and renamed Schonefeld airport is a replacement for Tegel airport in which European city?
What is Berlin
400
What is the USA state capital of California?
What is Sacramento
500
In which ocean is Ascension Island?
What is Atlantic